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Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

By : Alin Gheorghe
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Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

By: Alin Gheorghe

Overview of this book

Galio is a free open source React Native framework that enables beginner-level programmers to quickly build cross-platform mobile apps by leveraging its beautifully designed ready-made components. This book helps you to learn about React Native app development while building impressive out-of-the-box apps with Galio. Lightning Fast Mobile App Development with Galio takes a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you will begin by exploring the basics of React Native and understanding how Galio works. As you make progress, you'll learn how to initialize and configure a React Native app and get to grips with the basics of React Native development. You'll also discover how packages work and how to install Galio as the main dependency, along with understanding how and why Galio helps you to develop apps with ease. Finally, you'll build three practical and exciting apps using React Native and Galio. By the end of this app development book, you'll have learned how to use Galio to quickly create layouts and set up React Native projects for your personal ideas.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we've gone even deeper with React Native. We've learned so much about new concepts such as props and the SRP. We should be able to start thinking using the React methodology based on props for now, and, later, even state. But understanding all this is a great step toward you becoming a real React Native developer.

You should feel even more comfortable regarding the way props are handled and how we can use this special feature of React called components for our benefit, for reusability and cleaner code. There's no such thing as your code being too clean, but at the same time, keep in mind the fact that sometimes there's no need for multiple layers of props. Maybe your component needs only one layer or no props at all. Only use this feature when you feel it might make your work easier.

We've also created a list for the first time and learned that each item of a list needs a key, a key that could sometimes be even our array&apos...